Guessing

Ashley

The moon is shining fully as it's light gracefully shines through the curtains of my room with a cold bliss making them dance, a reminder of the coming season

I stared at my room's plain white ceiling as I lay on my bed. It's already late in the evening but still, I can't sleep. The thoughts of home clouded my mind

I wasn't really used to living alone but the inconvenience of my house's distance from school made me need to rent an apartment near my school.

But my mom was alone. My Dad rarely comes home from another town for his job as a morning grocery salesman and an evening security guard. My younger sister, Alyn is too busy with her studies that she sometimes forgets about house stuffs. She was a stubborn high school student.

I decided to go to my room's terrace to get some fresh air.

From up here, I could see the empty road under the starry night. It was quite peacefu. I just got here so I didn't really had the chance to go around and appreciate the view

I leaned myself to the terrace and gazed at my left side.Beside my apartment , a few meters away was also a red apartment building. It's design and structure was almost like the one I'm standing right now

I was looking at that house when I saw a boy came by the terrace of the same floor as mine. He was wearing a plain white shirt and shorts and he also has a black messy hair....

Because I thought he was cute, I gazed at him longer than I should had. But to my surprise he looked at my direction so I immediately looked at the other direction...

He seemed shocked to see me. Maybe he doesn't know that there's already someone living in this house since we're just new here.

I looked at him again and found out that he's still looking at me so our eyes met for a few moments but he went back inside his room..

At first, I thought he was already planning to go to sleep since it's already late but again to my surprise he came back with a notebook and a pen on his hand.

He leaned on the terrace like he was trying to write something on it and after a few minutes he turned to me holding the notebook and there's something written on it, I read it.

"WHAT?"

Why is he even writing? why don't he just speak to me anyway? Is he mute?

I just raised an eyebrow.

"I'M NOT MUTE."

What? Can he read my mind now? Oh yeah it's almost midnight, maybe that's why he doesn't want to speak. He doesn't wanna disturb anyone...I guess?

" WHAT ARE YOU STARING AT? "

I was actually shocked upon reading that because I didn't know that he caught me looking at him. My cheeks burned.

He just turned his back and I thought he was trying to write something again. When he was finished, he showed me the notebook

"AM I REALLY HANDSOME?"

Even if I wasn't eating or drinking something that time I swear I choked after reading that..

I returned to my room to look for something to write on like he also did and went back to the terrace

I wrote something and showed it to him

"YOU WISH"

Then he replied

"I DON'T HAVE TO WISH IT, I'M NATURALLY HANDSOME"

I wrote something again looking irritated and showed it to him. This is kinda awkward, writing to guy who was just a few meters away so you wouldn't disturb the neighborhood

"YUCK, YOU LOOK LIKE A GHOST WITH YOUR ALL-WHITE OUTFIT"

He laughed and started to write again..

"YOU LOOK LIKE A WHITE LADY WITH YOUR WAIST LENGTH HAIR"

Then I replied...."WHATEVER"

My hair was a wavy long and black and I love it that way.

He laughed hard upon reading that then wrote something again...but this time it wasn't something to piss me off...

"Sorry if I'm pissing you, I just can't sleep and have nothing left to do"

I wrote back...

"It's okay, I can't sleep either"

He smiled at me, "Can we be friends?"

I smiled back, "Yeah, sure"

Since I think there's nothing wrong with me being friends with a neighbor, right?

"Are you new here?"

Err..isn't it weird if he wouldn't ask my name first? oh well...I'll just go with the flow

"Yes"

"Cool! where d'you study?"

"In TIU , you?"

"Same here" he smiled

"Really?...what a small world!"

Well It's not really new to have a student living near the school.

"Yeah so that's why I have this feeling that I saw you before"

"Whoa! really? where?"

"Hmm let me think..."

Then he stopped writing and looked up with his hand on his chin making it look like he was remembering something...after some minutes he wrote something again.

"Ah! you're the girl from the Education department, are you?"

Then he smiled like he just realized something

"Whoa! you're right I am!"

My boredome was slowly swifting away because of our little chitchat

"I actually like someone from your class so I always walk by your room and I sometimes see you there.."

"Hey, Really? Can you tell me who?"

Now I can't really tell if I asked that because I'm bored because I was just curious

"Sorry but it's a secret.."

"Oh please! I promise I won't tell it to anyone!"

"Hmmm okay BUT! I still won't tell you until you guess it right. I'll give clues and you'll have to guess"

I felt excitement all of a sudden...

"OKAY!" I agreed

"She's a girl"

"sure she's not gay who speaks bekimon and has make-up all over her face and also has a red lipstick like McDonalds =_=" I even drew an emoticon

"Just joking. Well, she has a wavy black long hair."

"How long?"

"Waist length"

I tried to think of my classmates who has a waist length hair and the girl who popped into my mind were: Nica, Andrea, Liana, Diane, Coleen and Jessica. There's six so I still can't tell who

"Okay, next clue?"

"She has a fair skin tone"

Now, I tried to think of the girls on the list who doesn't have a fair skin tone which means Nica is excluded

"And?"

"She's tall"

I then scratched Diane off the lists since she's quite short

"Then?"

"She loves dancing"

As far as I know, Andrea and Jessica don't dance since they're the singers of the class.

"A little more and I think I'm getting it"

There's only Liana and Coleen in the list. Almost there!

"She's sporty"

Liana is a member of the volleyball team, I know so 'cuz I may not look like it but I'm the captain while Coleen is a tennis player so I didn't had the chance to exclude someone.

"What else?"

"She plays Guitar"

so that leaves me no conclusion but it's....

"LIANA!! YOU LIKE LIANA SHIN!!"

I smiled at him as if I've won a million but he just shook his head. So I whispered enough for him to hear, or was it not whispering at all?

" I'm sure it's Liana! She has a waist length hair, She's tall in fact she's a little bit taller than me, I know she loves dancing 'cuz we're both a member of the dance club, I'm the team captain of Volleyball so I know she's a member of my team, And she plays guitar! Besides she's the one who taught me to play one"

He just shook his head and started writing something again.

"Don't you have a black waist length hair?"

I got a little bit confused so I just agave him a 'What?' look

"I see, you have a fair skin tone and your also 5'9 tall. Well, for a girl like you that's tall."

"Hey! how d'you know?" I asked wide-eyed, my voice slightly louder. It's not like you meet a stranger everyday who knows your height!

"You're a member of the dance club, your even the team captain of our school's volleyball team and you're also the lead guitarist who represented the education department last battle of the bands"

"What do you mean?" I finally asked

To my surprise, he said, "Hi Ashley, I'm Ryan...I like you, I really do "

I felt sudden goosebumps upon hearing his voice that it was like there was someone partying inside my body. Then I realized..

I just... got confessed to, didn't I?

       

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